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The Daily Dispatch: August 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], Recollections of Stonewall Jackson. (search)
ent messages to all his friends, the Generals and others, and murmured in a low voice his wish to be buried in "Lexington, in the Valley of Virginia." His mind then began to wander, and that delirium which seizes upon the most powerful minds, the most vigorous brains, at the mysterious moment, when the last sands fall from the glass, began to affect him. He gave orders to the commissary of his corps, the surgeons, and the commanders. Among the last words which escaped his lips were, "A. P. Hill, prepare for action!" After this he speedily sank, and at fifteen minutes past three in the evening he tranquilly expired. Jackson and Lee. These two men had now met (at Cold Harbor) for the first time in the war; had seen each other at work; and there sprung up at once between the two eminent soldiers that profound respect, confidence, and regard, which thenceforth knew no diminution, no shadow of turning. Jackson said of Lee, "He is a phenomenon. I would follow him blindfo